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1 <br /> <br />APPROVED 1/21/2020 MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />BUSINESS MEETING <br />December 10, 2019 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a business meeting on Tuesday, <br />December 10, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta <br />Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br />Travis Myren, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker. (All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below.) <br /> <br /> Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda <br /> <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Rich acknowledged the public charge. <br /> <br />Arts Moment: <br />Katie Murray, Arts Commission Director, introduced Andrea Selch: <br />Andrea Selch joined the board of Carolina Wren Press 2001, after the publication of her <br />poetry chapbook, Succory, which was #2 in the Carolina Wren Press poetry chapbook series. <br />She has an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, and a PhD from Duke University, where she taught <br />creative writing from 1999 until 2003. Her poems have been published in Calyx, Equinox, The <br />Greensboro Review, Oyster Boy Review, Luna, Swink, The MacGuffin, Prairie Schooner, The <br />Southern Review and featured on the Best American Poetry blog. Her full-length collection of <br />poetry, Startling, was published by Turning Point Press in October, 2004, and reissued by <br />Cockeyed Press in 2009. In 2007, Choreo Collective danced her “Holy Shell Waiting for the <br />Return of the Soul,” and “Early Weaning” at the biennial symposium of Duke University’s Sallie <br />Bingham Center for the Study of Women’s History and Culture. She won a 2008 “Hippo” Award <br />from The Monti for her spoken story, “Replacement Child.” Her small collection of Ekphrastic <br />poems, Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing, was published by Cockeyed <br />Press in 2009, and in 2011 a selection of her work appeared in The Book of Ystwyth: Six Poets <br />on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins. After a dozen years as President of Carolina Wren Press, she <br />now devotes her time to coaching the Triangle Equestrian Vaulters, while continuing to work on <br />a second full-length manuscript entitled “Oh My Darling”. <br /> Andrea Selch read two poems, one for fall and one for spring: “Kathexis” and “Early <br />Berry Picking”. <br /> <br />2. Public Comments <br /> <br />a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda <br />Riley Ruske said he came here tonight after watching the basketball game at Cedar <br />Ridge High School, where he noticed that before the game, everyone stood during the national